Interesting Things on the Internet: April 15th 2019

• Split. "the split that worries the most is this: The people who make the web vs. the people who are excluded from making the web."
• Prototyping in Tokyo. Interesting thoughts on simplicity of form and humans relating to objects.
• Government as a Platform, the hard problems: part 2—the design of services & public policy. Good stuff on digital government from Richard Pope. I particularly like the point that we shouldn't look for just the most efficient and one-way-to-do-things approach, that there are should/could be multiple paths through the system. All sizes fit one, rather than one size fits all.
• The billionaire's typewriter. Excellent essay about Medium.com, but also applicable to so many of the "content platforms".